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@Mrs. Bee: let me clarify to say that I do NOT have a naturally good sleeper. I've gone through many, many months of poor sleep because of my feelings about sleep training. My 16 month old still does not usually sleep through, and we just deal.
@runsyellowlites I think there is an ENORMOUS difference between sending daddy in when the baby wants mommy and just leaving them on their own. It's letting a child cry by themselves that I consider to be totally unacceptable. My daughter often cries for a moment when daddy goes in, because she'd rather be nursing. I hate that, but nursing overnight kills me. I'm willing to let her be a bit sad, just not sad and alone.
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I didn't even know what sleep training was until my average sleeping 2 month old slowly began developing more and more poor sleep habits. For over two months she was up every hour or less throughout the night with 8 or more wakings a night. It took an hour and a half to put her to bed only to wake up 45 minutes later. In the end DD was exhausted and not her usual happy funny self and I was downright depressed from the lack of sleep. I felt like she was not happy not getting any sleep and I wasn't the best mother I could be for her. I felt like she deserved a happy mommy who could laugh, play and take her places. We sleep trained recently and life is so much more manageable. She is far from STTN but everyone in our house is happier.
Bottom line, it is all about what works for each individual family and baby.
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@sarac: Definitely different but I still hate it! I guess I just resolved that infants biologically have crappy sleep schedules (generally) and I needed to get happy or be miserable. I tell myself that with alot of things that are just the way they are b/c that's the way they are... "Get happy". It usually works! lol
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@autumn865: Sounds just like us. I was really against any kind of sleep training/CIO and just tried to grin and bear it for close to seven months. It got to the point, though, where I was sleeping maybe three to four hours a night, and it would take me at least an hour to put her to sleep. We were all so miserable, and I realized that I wasn't doing anyone any favors by continuing what we were doing.
I really think every family is different and everyone has a breaking point. I reached mine, we sleep-trained, life was so much better. Not perfect - we've had lots of regressions - but still, definitely a lot better than where we were before.
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We got lucky in that LO slept through the night by himself at 12-14 weeks and never needed any training. He goes down really easy most nights as well.
We always just let him sleep when he wanted to sleep, from day one. On the contrary, a friend of mine with a similarly aged son had her baby on a schedule for naps from day one. That type of scheduling just wasn't for us, but it worked well for her.
LO is not the best napper, so sometimes I think about nap training him, but as long as his mood seems to be good, I don't really stress if one day he takes three naps and another day he only takes a couple cat naps. We try to be good about putting him in his crib when we see sleepy cues, and that has been working well.
I guess I'm not against it- I just haven't needed it. Whatever works for your family, I suppose.
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